Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: yankee
IPA transcription: [j'æŋki]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Yankee
    Meaning: used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Yankee, Yank, Northerner
    Meaning: an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
Usage examples
  • It is one of the marks of a true Yankee, I suspect, to like such a perch.
  • "A Yankee destroyer--in all probability the one we dodged yesterday afternoon."
  • Pratt managed the helm (the governor could not work the Yankee notion) and the kitchen.
  • He was one of the very few persons whom I met at the South who did not recognize me at sight as a Yankee.
  • That a Yankee should accept his hospitality, and then load him with curses and call him all manner of names!
  • Colonel Talbot is at the front, and you'll probably find him closer than any other officer to the Yankee army.
  • And even if I am an old hound I could run with the best of them if that infernal Yankee bullet had not taken me in the leg!"
  • Leaving home, he found, in a venture at "Yankee notion-pedling," that glibness meant three hundred per cent, in disposing of flimsy wares.
  • There are gaps in the Yankee lines, but the men have closed up, and they come on at the double quick with their cannon still firing over their heads!"
  • At sunset, the garrison of Fort Slatter was still unconquered, and the South-Enders, in a solid phalanx, marched off whistling "Yankee Doodle," while we cheered and jeered them until they were out of hearing.